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Authorities in Mississippi are investigating a fire that destroyed a Pentacostal church that is opposing a stay-at-home order in a federal lawsuit.

The Thomas More Society, the religious liberty advocacy group representing the First Pentecostal Church of Holly Springs, confirmed in an email that the fire destroyed the church in Holly Springs, Mississippi, early Wednesday.

“We’ve collected evidence and stuff we are trying to get identified through several different companies and stuff to give us some leads and lead us in a direction we can find the person or persons responsible for this fire,” Marshall County sheriff’s office Maj. Kelly McMillen told reporters Wednesday.